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Old 10-05-2006, 02:44 PM   #1
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Unhappy After boot up RAID drives fail to start OS.


(Actually this is a repost from the Linix-Hardware forum... I didn't notice the Fedora forum earlier. This is probably more appropriate here.)

I have a Supermicro Superserver system (Pentium D) running Fedora Core 4 (2.6.16-1.2111_FC4). It is running a software RAID array (2 Drives). It was running great for several months but then last week the power supply failed on the unit and it brought the server down. I have now replaced the power supply with a new one and the system now boots correctly... till you get to the kernel bootup. Here is the error I recieve:

Code:
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 ro root=/dev/md0 rhgb quiet
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1841e1]
initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4.img
   [Linux-initrd @ 0x37ec2000, 0x12dd1e bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting kernel.
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 000:00:1c.0
Rad Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
switchroot: mount failed: 22
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
P.S. I have a very nice screen shot of this but the Bulletin Board will not allow me to post outside URl's. Very annoying.

I'm not sure if the PCI errors were there before but I'm thinking that the actual problem might actually be with the superblock error, not the PCI errors.

I can boot the system with the Fedora Core 4 Rescue CD and the entire filesystem mounts up correctly. I can see the contents of the RAID array and the /boot partition as well. I have forced a full "fsck" scan on all of the drives and all were clean.

How do I verify the integrity of the superblock and/or do you think that is where my problem lies
 
Old 10-05-2006, 03:13 PM   #2
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Did you e2fsck /dev/md0?

You can also try looking up the other backup superblocks with dumpe2fs then I think you can specify the other superblock to use in the boot: prompt.or in grub's menu.lst.
 
Old 10-06-2006, 02:03 PM   #3
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Do you have an example of how I can specify an alternate superblock in the grub boot options? I can't seem to find it by "Googling". Thank you!

P.S. I did fsck /dev/md0 and it was also clean (even after I forced it (-f))

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